Psychosocial safety climate as a lead indicator of workplace bullying and harassment, job resources, psychological health and employee engagement

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1782-1793

  Law, Rebecca ^a   Dollard, Maureen F ^a   Tuckey, Michelle R ^a   Dormann, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bullying and harassment; Occupational Safety; Psychosocial safety climate; Work psychosocial risk; Work stress

Indexed keywords

BULLYING AND HARASSMENT; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PSYCHOSOCIAL SAFETY CLIMATE; WORK PSYCHOSOCIAL RISK; WORK STRESS;

HEALTH; HEALTH HAZARDS; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

HEALTH RISKS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BULLYING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REWARD; SAFETY; SELF REPORT;

ADULT; BULLYING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; REWARD; SAFETY; SELF REPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 79958214515     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2011.04.010     Document Type: Article

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